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No. 63,378; Patented Apr. 2, 1867.

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F. G. FLOYD AND E. A. FLOYD, OF MACOMB, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 63,378, dated April 2,1857.

IMPROVEMENT IN BROAD-CAST SOWERS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, F. G. FLOYD and E. A. FLOYD, of Maconib, in the county of McDonough, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broad-Cast Sced-Sowers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use our invention we will proceed to describe it.

Our invention consists in making a convenient, labor-saving broad-east seed-sewer, so that it may be carried by a person on foot, or placed on the rear end of a wagon or other vehicle.

Figure 1 represents a. perspective view of the seed-sewer complete.

Figure 2 represents the disk with its flanges, from which the seed is thrown or cast.

Figure 3 represents a sectional View of the disk with its flanges.

In fig. 1, a represents the frame of the sewer; Z), a hopper or receptacle for the seed; 0, a bag attached to the hopper; 61, a circular disk under the hopper; e, f, g, crank, shafting, and gearing, for turning the disk; It, flanges on the disk; 2', slide; and 7c, peg for adjusting the slide. In figs. Q and 3, (Z represents the disk; It, the flanges; Z, the curved ends of the flanges. In theframe, within the hopper, and a little to one side of the axle to which the disk is fastened, thereis a hole for the grain to pass through. This hole may be made of any size, or entirely closed by means of the slide 2' and the adjusting peg It.

In order to use our sewer, if done by a person on foot, we suspend it from the shoulders by a strap, and make the bag Z) long enough to reach over the shoulder, and to contain as much seed as can be conveniently carried. e then adjust the slide 2' so as to permit the seed to run through and fall upon the disk (I, at the same time turning the crank e, and, by means of the shafting and gearing fg, causing the disk cl to revolve rapidly. As the seed falls on to the disk it is carried along the flanges to their curved ends, and thrown broad-east over the ground. At any time we can stop the flow of the seed by moving the slide, and in like manner increase the quantity of the flow. By this arrangement we are enabled to make a broad-cast seed-sower which, with its revolving disk, having flanges running from its centre, and curved attheir ends, closely to resemble in its mode of operation the human arm and hand in broad-cast sowing, with the advantage, however, of sowing evenly and continuously. Our sewer may be attached to a wagon or other vehicle and operated in a similar manner.

Having thus described and explained our invention, what we claim, is-

1. The revolving disk d, provided with the radial flanges 7i, having their outer onus projecting beyond the periphery of the disk, and curved in the manner shown, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the frame a, hopper I), slide 2, and revolving disk d, constructed as above set forth, all arranged for joint operation as herein described.

I. G. FLOYD,

E. A. FLOYD.

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